Category: Women’s life & health
10 easy nutrition tips to improve your health
Eating a nutritious and balanced diet is an essential part of anyone’s health, whether you are on a weight loss journey or just trying to look after your body. But knowing where to start can be quite the challenge! We put together 10 easy tips to improve your health, to start you off.
Overdue babies at risk of behavioral problems
Babies who stay in the womb beyond 42 weeks of pregnancy are at risk of health conditions and behavioral problems, according to a new study. The researchers published their findings in the International Journal of Epidemiology, and conducted their research in the Netherlands, where postdates pregnancies were rarely induced until very recently.
Premature births kill a million babies a year
As many as one in 10 babies are born prematurely each year all over the world, according to a report led by the World Health Organization. That amounts to 15 million babies, one million of whom pass away soon after they are born. According to the report, as many as three fourths of those deaths [...]
Parents eat less healthy diets than childless people
Is having children a good motivation to eat a healthy and balanced diet? Not according to American researchers, who say that the amount of saturated fats in most people’s diet actually increases after they have kids. The study team followed folks with and without kids for a total of seven years before coming to this [...]
Women have too much faith in contraceptives
If you are on the pill, or use condoms, you can’t get pregnant — or can you? According to a new study, many women think that contraceptives are more effective than they actually are, which may place them at risk of an unwanted pregnancy.
Fish oil helps improve periodontitis
Periodontitis is a horrible mouth disease that may start off with bleeding gums and tartar, causes receding gums and dental pockets, and can even make parts of the jaw bone rot away. The disease has consequences beyond dental health. It can eventually make your teeth fall out, but also makes you more susceptible to certain [...]
Women over 40 — IVF may not get you pregnant!
Do you think that you can wait until you are older to try for a baby — because if it turns out that you can’t get pregnant naturally you can have IVF anyway? This way of thinking is increasingly common, but also, according to a new study, incorrect. About 20 percent of all women now [...]
Fertility drugs linked to leukemia in children
Ovarian stimulating fertility drugs are drastically increase the risk of leukemia in children, a French research team announced this week. Children of mothers who tried to conceive for more than a year before using fertility medications to get pregnant are as much as 50 percent more likely to develop acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is the most [...]
Catholic school teacher fired for having IVF
Teachers in Christian schools have often been fired for getting pregnant outside of marriage, even in recent years in countries like the US and Australia. But can you image a Catholic school sacking a member of staff because she used IVF to get pregnant… months after being given time off for the treatment, and being [...]
Family dinners improve your health
Eating together as a family is a nice habit that too few people still have. New research also shows that families who eat their meals together are healthier. Unfortunately the study also showed that most families don’t eat together hardly at all, and that they choose to consume fast food separately instead of enjoying balanced [...]
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